edited by Andrzej Goscinski (Deakin University, Australia) , Wanlei Zhou (Deakin University, Australia) , Horace H S Ip (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) , & Weijia Jia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

ICA³PP 2000 was an important conference that brought together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the knowledge of parallel and distributed computing. The proceedings constitute a well-defined set of innovative research papers in two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing: (1) architectures, algorithms and networks; (2) systems and applications.

• Cluster Computing
• Interconnection Networks and Routing
• Parallel Architecture & Parallel I/O Systems
• Parallel and Distributed Databases
• Parallel Algorithms I
• Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Software Development
• Parallel Algorithms II
• Parallel Processing on Web-Based Systems and Applications
• Distributed and Parallel Operating Systems and Middleware
• High-Performance Scientific Computing
• Parallel and Distributed Processing
• Fault-Tolerant Computing
• High-Performance Data Management